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Liverpool Walton has the highest total number of people receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment in July 2026.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, in each month with published figures. Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, total, July 2026, by constituency

Total, low to high

  1. Under 4,864
  2. 4,864 to 6,480
  3. 6,480 to 8,095
  4. 8,095 to 9,711
  5. 9,711 to 11,327
  6. 11,327 and over
  • Estimated value
People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, total, July 2026, by constituency. Boundaries are simplified. London is also shown larger, in a separate box. Northern Ireland is not covered. Every value is in the table below.
More ways to look at itHow ranks change, why spending changed, and spending compared with the expected level

Total or per person

Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest total are drawn in dark lines.

TotalPer 1,000 residents1632Liverpool Walton 1Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney 2Easington 3Knowsley 4Bootle 6Blackpool South 8Birkenhead 11Glasgow North 23Glasgow North East 27Liverpool Riverside 33

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 2026. The chart splits the change into three parts: the number of people in the age group, the share of them claiming, and the average payment. Cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

£20.1bnJuly 2023+£286.9mPopulation+£6.8bnShare claiming+£3.3bnPayment size£30.5bnJuly 2026
What changed: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023£20.1bn
Population+£286.9m
Share claiming+£6.8bn
Payment size+£3.3bn
July 2026£30.5bn
The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. Yearly spending here is the number claiming, times the average weekly payment, times 52. It is not the amount paid out over the year. Population after mid-2024 stays at the mid-2024 figure, so later growth shows in the share claiming. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

Compared with similar areas

Is spending higher or lower than expected?

Benefit spending per resident, 2024-25. We compare it with the level we would expect from each area's share of children and of people aged 66 and over, how deprived it is compared with the rest of its nation, and the typical pay of people who live there. Cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

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Expected level = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment, July 2026. Rank is for total, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 632 rows are shown.

People receiving Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment for every constituency, July 2026
RankNotes
1Liverpool Walton15,955155.8
2Liverpool Riverside14,926113.4
3Blackpool South14,540129.1
4Birkenhead14,041127.9
5Bootle13,780132.2
6Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney13,714143.4
7Knowsley13,686138.2
8Easington13,682142.2
9Glasgow North13,566117.8Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
10Glasgow North East13,322115.8Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
11Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare13,214131.4
12Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough13,129113.8
13Rhondda and Ogmore12,982128.3
14Middlesbrough and Thornaby East12,918106.6
15Dundee Central12,884122.0Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
16Liverpool West Derby12,765126.2
17Birmingham Erdington12,696100.6
18Aberafan Maesteg12,669136.4
19Rotherham12,571109.5
20Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West12,44188.6
21Bolton South and Walkden12,42695.2
22Houghton and Sunderland South12,416117.0
23Barnsley South12,411115.0
24Glasgow East12,393117.5Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
25Swansea West12,392109.8
26Glasgow West12,321120.7Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
27Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North12,23397.5
28Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend12,044100.3
29Bradford West11,99094.4
30Glasgow South West11,959117.8Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
31Hartlepool11,830120.5
32West Dunbartonshire11,790128.6Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
33Blackley and Middleton South11,717101.6
34Walsall and Bloxwich11,70693.6
35Coatbridge and Bellshill11,694122.3Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
36Wolverhampton South East11,64690.7
37Wallasey11,623118.3
38Neath and Swansea East11,598113.7
39Blyth and Ashington11,586109.3
40Wythenshawe and Sale East11,581101.4
41Birmingham Ladywood11,57369.3
42Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke11,573118.4Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
43Barnsley North11,510106.8
44Airdrie and Shotts11,463121.9Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
45Tipton and Wednesbury11,43397.4
46Salford11,41882.2
47Glasgow South11,364122.1Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
48Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West11,360126.0Shared out, Includes Scottish benefits
49Derby South11,32590.3
50Nottingham North and Kimberley11,309102.9

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are total unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Social Security Scotland, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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